Rusty Ring

Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have l...

(That's me in my cardigan on Bodhisattva Day 2014. This year Bodhisattva Day falls on Thursday – i.e., tomorrow. For information on t...

"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?', and if they would, I do not do that thing....

If you don't know John Gorka, you should know John Gorka. Few artists sing the human heart like John. A number of his songs s...

I was difficult when I was younger. Part of me would like to go back and face some of those challenges and circumstances again, ex...

An old friend last week posted a link to The Cruelty of Call-Out Culture: How Not To Do Social Change , David Brook's timely and inc...

"[Kitano] was thin and not in good health, but Shunryu was mesmerised by the way he would lay out his bowing cloth and lower hi...

"And then they found me guilty." I've been meaning to post on this found teisho since I launched Rusty Ring, away bac...

Once, when I was in Grade 2, my teacher had all of us save our milk carton from lunch. Afterward we folded it into a flower pot, filled i...

On 20 March, I'm inviting all brother and sister seekers to be mindful of the Bodhisattva. "Bodhisattva" is the Buddhist te...

(The following is an excerpt from "Rough Around the Edges: A Journey Through Washington's Borderlands." Copyright RK Henderson...